Tag: Stretch and Bobbito

Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives
Directed by Bobbito Garcia
October 1-8 at BAM
Autobiographical documentaries by the Publicly Prominent tend to be, at best, a dicey proposition: pitfalls can include erroneous self-censorship, echo-chamber interviews with the subject’s celebrity friends, the whitewashing of entire decades, and/or no small amount of product placement. And while nostalgia exacts an ever-higher price, the current moment of fandom for classic East Coast hip-hop more and more resembling a prior generation’s...